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love canal
the canal became a dump site during the 1920s for municipal refuse for the City of Niagara Falls. -
three mile island
The Three Mile Island accident was the partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979 -
Chernobyl
leak of radiation and explodes -
exxon valdez spill
It was the worst oil spill in U.S. history until the deep water Horizon oil spill in 2010 -
Kuwaiti Oil Fires
he Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by Iraqi military forces setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches, as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 -
tokamiura nuclear plant
There have been two Tokaimura nuclear accidents at the nuclear facility at Tōkai, Ibaraki: on 11 March 1997, an explosion occurred in a Dōnen plant, and on 30 September 1999,